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At a developer conference in Austin I saw two AI code generators go head to head and it split the room
One team showed a tool that writes your whole function from a comment, the other demoed one that just auto-completes your current line. I'm leaning toward the comment-to-code side since it saved me 10 minutes on a messy SQL query yesterday. Which approach do you think actually makes you faster in the long run?
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the_lucas25d agoMost Upvoted
Wait but did the comment-to-code tool actually handle edge cases right or did you still have to go back and tweak stuff? That's what gets me, cause auto-complete feels safer for logic you already understand.
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henry31525d ago
Honestly I used to feel the same way but then I actually tried one of these tools and it surprised me. The edge cases were handled better than I expected because it pulls from real code patterns in the project, not just random guesses. I still had to fix a couple things but it was like 2 or 3 minor tweaks instead of a whole rewrite. Now I kind of see it as a way to get the boring parts done faster so I can focus on the tricky stuff myself.
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